Word: margin
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Reagan's margin, 525 electoral votes to 13 for Mondale, was exceeded in modern times only by Franklin D. Roosevelt's 523-to-8 crushing of Alf Landon in 1936.* As of Wednesday morning, Reagan was winning 59% of the popular vote, a share not much below Lyndon Johnson's record 61.1% in 1964. Ironically, Reagan came close to the 63% vote garnered two days earlier by the Marxist Sandinistas in a Nicaraguan election that Washington had denounced as rigged. Mondale was left with ten electoral votes from his home state of Minnesota and three from...
...percentage of those eligible who actually cast ballots fell to 51.4% from 52.6% four years ago. Nonetheless, most of the new voters obviously went to Reagan. On top of that, the President won nearly two-thirds of the votes cast by youths 18 to 24, his highest margin in any age group and something of a new constituency for the Republicans...
Bradley possesses quieter charm, but he has acquired remarkable respect and influence in just one Senate term. His huge re-election margin this week will intensify talk of his White House ambitions, and any upcoming tax-reform battles will swing the limelight his way. But a New York political consultant thinks the former forward for the New York Knicks is unready to run. "There's not a natural move in his body, whether it's basketball or politics," says the adviser. "He works like hell, but he needs more time." Although some Democrats are still leery of Hart...
Next came Brown, and detense again looked great. Harvard took a 14-0 lead into the second half, then quickly upped the margin to 17. The Bruins mounted a comeback, but the Crimson put the game away with five play, 75 yd. drive...
...defend more liberal policies from rightwingers as easily as to justify heightened conservatism. The election was, above all, a personal triumph for Reagan, and it could conceivably free him from the shibboleths of the New Right loonies hovering near the White House. Perhaps President will draw upon his margin of victory to pursue some limit in the size of the Pentagon buildup, in conjunction with continued domestic cuts and tax simplification. Even more hopefully, Reagan could use his victory margin as encouragement to move away from his hardline bargaining stance on arms control--in the interest of leaving office with...